Political Ideology Essay

Political ideology and social patterns After completing the typology quiz - and granted some of the questions were tough to answer since I felt like my ideologies fit in the middle of those two extremes - I wasn’t surprised to find myself placed along side with 15% of the public as a solid liberal. Which I believe is pretty accurate in terms of self-identification if you ask me. Reason being is that when I investigated further into their social background characteristics I couldn’t help but agree with the majority of the stances they took. For instance, according to people-press.org - the website in which I took said quiz - solid liberals are generally affluent, highly educated (heh..and they called me stupid?), very optimistic about …show more content…
Which some - with my limited understanding of politics - didn’t surprise me. For instance the demographics of party, age, income, and the number of black/non-hispanics within these political groups. Take party for an example, when you look at these social backgrounds broken down between the three different parties (republican, democrat, independent) you’ll see that the solid liberals vote 61% democrat while business and steadfast conservatives are on the complete opposite with an average of 53% republican. This is also seen clearly in the 2014 election, where solid liberals voted 88% democrat while the business and steadfast conservatives both voted 88% republican. However, that’s not always the case. When it comes to age and income - for the most part - solid liberals and business and steadfast conservatives are roughly the same. Though that cannot be said about gender and race/ethnicity. According to the data you’ll see that every political group is split almost evenly for gender and race/ethnicity except for steadfast and business conservatives. Which - ironically as the stereotype plays out- makes sense since the majority of the business world is ruled by white